Rachel Le Moyne

Plot

Rachel LeMoyne, a mixed-blood Choctaw raised in a Presbyterian mission, knows that her callilng in 1847 is to travel to Ireland to feed the starving people there with her own people's life-giving surplus corn. But she never expected to find a husband among the hungry and grief-stricken people. Especially not a husband considered an outlaw by his English landlord for daring to grind the corn that Rachel brought. When She and Darragh return to America as husband and wife, a new challenge awaits her: they must flee to escapte the authorities still searching for Darragh. But with the Irish, like the Blacks and Indians, deemed "unfit for liberty, " and with many factories posting "No Irish Need Apply" signs, the only place to run is west, tothe wild country promised to anyone who survives the journey.